Marcos - perhaps we should directly engage the WAI community
regarding your proposal.
I believe the Protocols and Formats WG [1][2] is the appropriate
group but Mike or others can confirm.
-Regards, Art Barstow
[1] <http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/>
[2] <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/wai-xtech/>
On Jun 21, 2008, at 9:38 PM, ext Marcos Caceres wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 6:29 AM, Bjoern Hoehrmann
> <derhoermi@gmx.net> wrote:
>> * Marcos Caceres wrote:
>>> This is a proposal to add alternative text to <icon> element. As
>>> with
>>> the alt attribute in HTML, the alternative text could be used as
>>> fallback content, or for context where an image icon does not fit or
>>> is unsuitable, and for use by assistive technologies.
>>>
>>> Proposal 1:
>>> <icon src="sunny.gif" alt="sunny and warm"/>
>>>
>>> Proposal 2:
>>> <icon src="sunny.gif" label="sunny and warm"/>
>>
>> Using only attribute values as space for human readable text is
>> widely
>> regarded as bad design for reasons of accessibility and
>> localization re-
>> quirements. Also expect pushback from other working groups if you
>> plan
>> to add improved alternatives later, but don't ensure that content
>> making
>> use of that will degrade gracefully in downlevel clients.
>
> Hmm... does that makes proposal 3 (<icon ..>..text...</icon) a more
> suitable option than proposal 1 or 2 above?
> If we go with proposal 3 for with Widgets 1.0, then would could limit
> the content model of icon to just text and then extend it as needed
> for future version (eg. allowing HTML through CData, etc).
> --
> Marcos Caceres
> http://datadriven.com.au
>